The Completion of Judges
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The Completion of Judges

Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21

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  2. English
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The Completion of Judges

Strategies of Ending in Judges 17–21

About this book

The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the "strategies of ending" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configuration of Judges and especially the nonlinear chronology that chapters 17-21 expose also receive due attention. All of this offers fresh insights into the place and function of Judges 17-21 in the context of the whole book.

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Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781575064963
eBook ISBN
9781575064970
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Table OF Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Composition of Judges: A Selective Survey
  6. Chapter 2: The End of Narrative: Emplotment and the Configuration of Time in Narrative Theory
  7. Chapter 3: Interlude: Strategies of Ending
  8. Chapter 4: The Strategy of Circularityin Judges 17–21
  9. Chapter 5: The Strategy of Entrapment in Judges 17–21
  10. Chapter 6: Narrative Temporality and the Strategy of Ending in Judges
  11. Conclusion
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index